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health education. They know the far-flung effects of this type of education on family and
children. The results of the study indicate that there is a need of proper awareness about
reproductive health education at every level. The researcher has tried to recommend the
possible efforts to be done for awareness of the people about reproductive health
education. The researcher has also suggested some problems to be solved by the future
researchers in this regard. The parents have to take a lot of care as the parents & in
families the children have to face a lot of problems leading towards miserable life.
Therefore, there is a need to take necessary steps regarding awareness about reproductive
health education in masses. In some countries like Iran the gap between rural and urban
areas regarding reproductive health is minimized because Mehryar (2007) described that
the long standing urban–rural gap in contraceptive prevalence rates has been reduced to
about 10 percent, which is mainly the result of better-educated urban couples‘ continued
practice of withdrawal. The religious scholars may have a great influence on reproductive
health education but unfortunately they have negative attitude towards this education.
Saleem and Bobak (2005) indicated that women's decision autonomy is significantly
associated with contraceptive use but it does not appear to mediate the link between
woman's education & contraception. There is no provision of the contents of reproductive
health education at any level in educational ladder. Therefore, even the literates have no
proper awareness about reproductive health.
8. Conclusions
Following conclusions were drawn from the findings of the study:
i. The people from the rural areas have negative and moderate attitudes, and there
are positive attitudes towards reproductive education in urban areas. There is a
lack of awareness in rural areas in particular and in urban areas in general.
ii. The doctors working in the hospitals have positive attitudes towards reproductive
health education because they are well aware about the harmful consequences
regarding ignorance about reproductive health education.
iii. The majority of religious scholars and illiterate in rural areas have negative
attitudes towards reproductive health education. They have no awareness about
reproductive health. In urban areas, the literate and religious scholars have
moderate or positive attitudes towards reproductive health education because
there is some awareness about this regards.
9. Recommendations
i. Efforts can be made to provide sufficient opportunities of health education to the
females in particularly and males in general.
ii. Improvement in curriculum may be made and reproductive health education may
be supplement to it at secondary and college level. Separate course of
reproductive education may be introduced at university level in the relevant
deportments.
iii. To attract females towards education in general and reproductive health education
in particular, proper incentives should be given to them.
iv. Training opportunities may be provided to educators and health workers in
promoting reproductive health education.
v. Culturally sensitive and anti-racist curriculum may be introduced into education
of school level including knowledge about RHE and women body and health,
sexuality.
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